Some Problems of the Central committee of KPJ and the High Command of NOPOJ in the year 1941 in regard to Leadership

Some Problems of the Central Committee of KPJ (the Communist Party of Yugoslavia) and the High Command of NOPOJ (the Yugoslavian Section of the People\u27s Liberation Movement) in the year 1941 in regard to Leadership. On account of extremely difficult conditions which arose after the capitulation and partition of the country, the leadership of the Yugoslavian Communist Party was confronted by serious difficulties in maintaining such communications with party leaders throughout the country as were indispensable for effective leadership. In the early stages of the uprising, when they were still in occupied Belgrade working under strictly illegal conditions, the Central Committee of KPJ and the High Command of the Yugoslavian Section of NOP (People\u27s Liberation Movement) using illegal lines of communication built up in the period before the war, succeeded, exclusively by means of couriers, in a maintaining Somewhat infrequent communications, with party and military leaders in the greater part of the country. Communicating by means of written messages, they sent orders, instructions and directives and received reports in return. When, in mid-September 1941, the Central Committee of KPJ and the High command moved to the liberated territory of western Serbia, communications were weakened considerably. The leadership of NOP made great efforts to make their communications more stable and efective, but not without difficulties which arose especially from the military activities of the enemy making the movement of couriers more difficult. A special difficulty in leadership was created by the lack of radio Communications. Although Tito had a radio station at his disposal, for reasons of a technical nature he was unable, until just before the end of 1941, to make radio contact, first with the leader of the Comintern radio centre in Zagreb (through whom he contacted the CK KP of Croatia), and then with party and military leaders. Tito\u27s persistent efforts to establish direct radio contact with Comintern in order to send reports on the situation in Yugoslavia which would be thus made known to the world, eventually met with success in February 1942. This achievement was extremely significant in the struggle for the international recognition of NOP and at the same time it improved communications by forming a link between »Free Yugoslavia« and leaders throughout the country